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Today in History: May 24, first major league night game 05/24/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 24, the 144th day of 2023. There are 221 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America’s first tele Federal judge extends temporary halt on appointed judges in Mississippi capital 05/22/2023 11:13pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday extended his order that temporarily stops the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice from appointing judges in the capital city of Jackson and the county where it's located, both of which are majority-Black. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate's new o 9th Circuit rules US deportation law that fueled family separations is 'neutral as to race' 05/22/2023 09:51pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. deportation law that fueled family separations at the southern border is “neutral as to race,” striking down an unprecedented Nevada ruling that had determined it was racist and unconstitutional. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ma Judge considers parents' request to keep Nashville school shooter's writings secret 05/22/2023 07:01pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of parents at a Christian school in Nashville that recently suffered a deadly school shooting want to keep the shooter's writings sealed, citing the threat of copycat attacks. But a judge said Monday they will have to wait until later this week to learn if their eff Lebanese prosecutor summons central bank chief following Interpol warrant over corruption charges 05/22/2023 10:33am • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's public prosecutor Monday summoned the country's embattled central bank governor for questioning following an international arrest warrant issued against him in France over corruption charges, judicial officials said. Riad Salameh is to answer the summons later this week, al Prince George's Co. MS-13 member sentenced to 28 years in prison for role in 2 murders, racketeering conspiracy 05/21/2023 08:05am • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man, who was a member of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his part in two murders and a broad racketeering conspiracy. Officials said 25-year-old Franklyn Edgardo Sanchez was a member of a local segment of MS-13  — Weedam Mexico prosecutors withdraw case against woman sentenced to prison for killing man raping her 05/21/2023 12:22am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her. In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while Minnesota bill legalizing recreational pot passes Senate, heads to governor's desk 05/20/2023 07:17pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Senators in Minnesota passed a bill Saturday that would allow recreational marijuana use by people over the age of 21 and make it the 23rd state to legalize the substance for adults. The measure has already been approved by the House and now goes to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who 2024 Republican hopefuls rush to defend Marine who put NYC subway rider in fatal chokehold 05/20/2023 05:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged the nation to show Daniel Penny that “America's got his back.” Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called for New York's governor to pardon Penny, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy donated $10,000 to his legal defense fund. Republican pre Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras' abortion ban 05/20/2023 11:53am • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of western Honduras’ coffee-growing mountains, a woman opened a tiny package of pills, delivered to a nearby town. She didn’t know it, but the medication had more than likely entered the country hidden in Clinton man gets 6 life sentences for 2017 stabbing of sister, 2 cousins 05/20/2023 05:25am • A Clinton, Maryland, man convicted of killing his sister and two cousins in 2017 was given six life sentences by a judge Friday — three without the possibility of parole. "He will not return to our community," said Prince George's County State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy, speaking about 30-year-o Nevada Democrats scrap fentanyl bill, amend companion bill to adjust drug penalty proposal 05/20/2023 02:24am • CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A bill that would enhance fentanyl penalties in Nevada did not pass after a hearing in an Assembly committee, while a companion bill was significantly amended in a last-minute shift for Nevada Democratic leadership's plans to send fentanyl legislation to the governor's des Police officer charged with lying about leaks to Proud Boys leader 05/19/2023 08:28pm • A Washington, D.C. police officer was arrested Friday on charges that he lied about leaking confidential information to Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and obstructed an investigation after group members destroyed a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation's capital. An indictment al Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins formally resigns in wake of ethics probes 05/19/2023 08:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins formally resigned Friday after wide-ranging investigations by two federal watchdog agencies found she sought to use her position to influence a local election and lied to investigators. In a letter to President Joe Biden obtained by Th FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says 05/19/2023 06:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and racial justice protests in 2020, according to a heavily blacked-out court order rel